BOISE, Idaho — More than 170 legal filings with considerable implications for trial in the University of Idaho student homicides case are set to near their resolution as defendant Bryan Kohberger returns to the courtroom Wednesday.

Since February, the prosecution and defense have traded more than 1,000 pages of court records over a variety of...Read more

BOSTON — Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson plans to plead guilty to federal public corruption changes, effectively admitting that she stole thousands of dollars from taxpayers in a kickback scheme that took place in City Hall, court records show.

Fernandes Anderson has signed a plea deal and intends to plead guilty, according to ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration is trying to claw back over $106 million in migrant funds from city coffers — bringing the total the president has attempted to snatch from New York City to a whopping $188 million.

In a letter to the city, feds wrote that the grant money, from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Shelter and ...Read more

Dozens of Democratic federal lawmakers slammed the Department of Homeland Security for shuttering key agency watchdogs amid reports of overcrowding and civil rights violations of immigrant detainees at Florida's Krome Detention Center, among other facilities.

In a letter Tuesday to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, 49 members of the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected challenges to the Trump administration‘s mass firing of new federal workers.

By a 7-2 vote, the justices set aside a ruling by U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco, who ordered the administration to “immediately” rehire 16,000 probationary employees across six departments...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration diverted $10 million in state settlement money last year to the charity arm of a welfare initiative led by his wife.

The unusual injection of cash was part of an undisclosed settlement agreement involving Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration. The money went to the Hope ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected challenges to the Trump administration‘s mass firing of new federal workers.

By a 7-2 vote, the justices set aside a ruling by U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco, who ordered the administration to “immediately” rehire 16,000 probationary employees across six departments...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As President Donald Trump launches a crackdown on unauthorized immigrants in the U.S., a new survey finds that a majority of California voters support providing social services for all low-income residents in the state, regardless of immigration status.

In contrast to the anti-immigrant rhetoric emanating from the White House, ...Read more

Two teen boys found dead in the landing gear of a JetBlue plane more than two months ago have been identified by authorities in Florida.

The bodies of Jeik Aniluz Lusi, 18, and Elvis Borques Castillo, 16 were discovered late in the night on Jan. 6 by workers at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport who were carrying out a “routine ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump spent the final hours before his sweeping tariffs were set for full implementation lining up negotiations with key U.S. allies, but hopes for striking a last-minute deal with China appeared distant.

Trump on Tuesday heralded planned trade talks as markets rebounded on optimism that he would reduce or ...Read more

Cities and states fighting a historic measles outbreak find themselves undermined by the Trump administration as they struggle to provide crucial vaccinations and overcome disinformation. As of this week, cases were nearing 650 in 22 states, on track to reach a 34-year high.

A second unvaccinated child died of measles in West Texas last week. U...Read more

An F-16 military jet was dispatched to chase a plane out of the airspace over Mar-a-Lago, where President Donald Trump spent the weekend.

The fighter pilot executed a “headbutt” maneuver to get the attention of the person flying the other aircraft Friday, according to local station WPBF. That technique typically involves a military jet ...Read more

CHICAGO — When rank-and-file firefighters joined them to demand a contract last month, the Chicago Teachers Union framed the team-up in powerful terms: “Two unions. One fight.”

Now, with a pending deal for teachers clinched last week, only one of them remains in the ring.

Chicago Firefighters Union Local 2 is rounding out the fourth year...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City will pay three shelter guards $350,000 to settle a lawsuit they brought alleging they were assaulted by Tim Pearson, a former top adviser and longtime confidant to Mayor Eric Adams, during an infamous 2023 incident at a migrant shelter, according to paperwork obtained by the Daily News.

The taxpayer-funded settlement ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Bensalem Township wants to build a new fire station. Sharon Hill's library needs renovations, and SEPTA's subway entrances on Market Street were planning a much-needed facelift.

Each project was slated for federal funding this year, which has vanished. When Congress passed the continuing resolution, or CR, to keep the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s transportation department is not planning to sue if the MTA blows through Secretary Sean Duffy’s deadlines to end the state’s congestion pricing program, new court filings reveal.

The filings come as Duffy has repeatedly talked — and tweeted — tough, threatening funding to the transit agency and deriding ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The family of a man killed by a Las Vegas police officer filed a federal lawsuit on Monday.

Metropolitan Police Department Officer Alexander Bookman fatally shot Brandon Durham, 43, on Nov. 12 after Durham called police to report a burglary.

The Clark County district attorney’s office is expected to seek an indictment of ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado lawmakers have backed a pair of bills to reform the much-maligned process that helped seat nearly a quarter of the Legislature, while rejecting a competing proposal that would’ve required changing the state constitution.

The two favored bills, which cleared an initial House committee on Monday, are essentially a package ...Read more

BALTIMORE — About a dozen Johns Hopkins University graduate students and recent graduates had their visa records terminated by the federal government, the university announced Tuesday.

In response, the Baltimore university is providing support to those students through the Office of International Services, such as academic advising and health...Read more